Australia: No residency for Down syndrome son
source: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/31/australia.residency.denied.ap/index.html
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities.
But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller's application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the "health requirement" and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.
The case has provoked an outcry in the rural region of southeastern Victoria state, where Moeller is the only internal medicine specialist for a community of 54,000 people. Residents rallied outside Moeller's practice this week, demanding that the decision be overturned, and hundreds of Internet and radio complaints from across the country bombarded media outlets Friday.
Moeller vowed to fight the immigration department ruling.
"We like to live here, we have settled in well, we are welcomed by the community here, and we don't want to give up just because the federal government doesn't welcome my son," he said Friday.
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But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller's application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the "health requirement" and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.
The case has provoked an outcry in the rural region of southeastern Victoria state, where Moeller is the only internal medicine specialist for a community of 54,000 people. Residents rallied outside Moeller's practice this week, demanding that the decision be overturned, and hundreds of Internet and radio complaints from across the country bombarded media outlets Friday.
Moeller vowed to fight the immigration department ruling.
"We like to live here, we have settled in well, we are welcomed by the community here, and we don't want to give up just because the federal government doesn't welcome my son," he said Friday.
More at the Link...
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Zurama
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That wouldn't happen here in the U.S.,
Come to America!!
- 3 years ago
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Zurama
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J_Jammer [removed]
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I posted the same thing. =P
But yeah this is disturbing....but just goes to show that no country has it right on how to do health care.
- 3 years ago
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J_Jammer [removed]
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